RIGA ART SPACE

Riga Photography Biennial 2022 Central Event - Exhibition ‘Screen Age III: Still Life’

22.04.-12.06.2022. 11:00-18:00

The exhibition Screen Age III: Still Life continues a series from 2018 that poses existentially pressing questions through observing the way technology is slowly changing people today. How deeply has human consciousness become inseparable from the te...

Exhibition ‘Measured Perspectives’

22.04.-12.06.2022. 11:00-18:00

Perspective is a long-standing topic of interest for Dutch visual artist Katja Mater and American photographer Erin O’Keefe. It functions both as a playing field for practical experimentation and as a tool to raise questions about the supposedl...

Series of Talks ‘Self-Isolation’: with Deniss Hanovs

01.06.2022. 18:00

The development of technology in the 21st century and the emergence of social networks has made it possible for people to be together and connected no matter where they are. This has enabled us to contemplate a more accessible and inclusive society w...

Discussion ‘To Collect or to Hoard?’

02.06.2022. 18:00

Collecting in general, and collecting works of art in particular, has been as a way to preserve valuable artworks for future generations since the Renaissance. Although art collection is mostly seen as being an elitist practice related predominantly ...

Riga Photography Biennial 2022 "ЛАВ = LOVE"

17.06.-10.07.2022. 11:00-18:00

From the collections of  Andrejs Strokins, Irēna Bužinska, Bolderājas GrupaCurator Inga Brūvere  Collecting is an interesting phenomenon; it is one of the most important cogs in the mechanism that maintains world order. Collecting is based...

Lecture ‘Photo Postcard as a Field of Creative Experiments in the 20th Century: Staging, Montage, Colouring’

30.06.2022. 18:00

From the late 19th century and into the 20th century, photo postcards served as a form of public communication and as a reflection of moral values, lifestyle, and aesthetic ideals. The cultural history of the 20th century also shows that this small f...